Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from G. Gore
Title
Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from G. Gore
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Date
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GFF 9/32
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Description
Handwritten letter from George Gore from Institute of Scientific Research 67, Broad Street, Birmingham to George F. Fitzgerald, dated March 19th 1894. Gore thanks Fitzgerald for responding to a enquiry and praises Fitzgerald for his statement "that the mechanical energies of molecules of different gases are equal". 1p.
Transcription:
Dear Professor Fitzgerald, Thank you very much for the note you have been so kind as to send me reflecting my enquiry in the Philosophical magazine of this month.
Although I have read much on the physics of gases, and the statement that the mechanical energies of molecules of different gases are equal is one which I would certainly have noted, I have no recollection of ever having met with it, and I would much like to see it in print. Such a statement is of so very fundamental a character that I think it ought, like Avogadro's Law, to be explicitly expressed in simple words in every textbook of physics and monograph on gases. Your article in "Science Progress" appears to me originally suggestive and very interesting.
Yours Truly,
G. Gore
Professor Fitzgerald
Transcription:
Dear Professor Fitzgerald, Thank you very much for the note you have been so kind as to send me reflecting my enquiry in the Philosophical magazine of this month.
Although I have read much on the physics of gases, and the statement that the mechanical energies of molecules of different gases are equal is one which I would certainly have noted, I have no recollection of ever having met with it, and I would much like to see it in print. Such a statement is of so very fundamental a character that I think it ought, like Avogadro's Law, to be explicitly expressed in simple words in every textbook of physics and monograph on gases. Your article in "Science Progress" appears to me originally suggestive and very interesting.
Yours Truly,
G. Gore
Professor Fitzgerald
Source
RDS Library and Archives GFF Collection of Letters
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Copyright RDS Library & Archives. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the RDS Library & Archives.
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RDS Science Archive
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Manuscript
Language
English
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Coverage
1870-1901
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Citation
Gore, George, 1826-1909, “Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from G. Gore,” RDS Digital Archive, accessed July 11, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/2346.